The Paceline

To-do lists are part of my DNA.  The root word, “plan,” has been a part of my job title since 2010.

Then there’s this from Paul David Tripp in New Morning Mercies on 13 February: 

It is the big delusion, the height of arrogance,

the seductive trap, the big, dark danger.

It leads nowhere good. It’s destiny is death.

It sat at the center of the disaster in the garden. 

It propelled the sad rebellion of Adam and Eve.

It tempts us all again and again in situation after situation,

location after location, relationship after relationship.

We fall into thinking what multitudes of our lost forefathers thought.

We buy into this one fateful thought, that perhaps we’re smarter than God,

that maybe our way is better than his way. 

Only grace can deliver the deluded

from the danger that they are to themselves.

“Tear up your list and throw it away—what God has planned for you is better than anything you’ve dreamed of for yourself.”

Tripp, Paul David. New Morning Mercies . Crossway. Kindle Edition.